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Dear Monty: Off-market listings are a bad idea

Reader Question: We recently read an online article on one of the major real estate sites about off-market listings. These listings were described as listings not entered into the MLS system. The gist of the article was that there are benefits to using this approach to sell your home in a hot market. We wonder about the logic and want to know what you think about the idea of an off-market listing?Monty’s Answer: The term off-market listing is new terminology. The term is similar to [...]
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City makes dent in rec center debt

FORT WALTON BEACH — Proceeds from the sale of a vacant city lot to Whataburger Real Estate LLC will be used to help pay down the debt on the Fort Walton Beach Recreation Center, City Manager Michael Beedie said.The 0.67-acre lot at 25 Miracle Strip Parkway S.W. stands immediately west of a Whataburger restaurant and was used for a gas station decades ago.Last week, the City Council approved [...]
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New tree ordinance sparks questions, concerns

DESTIN — If the apple tree from Shel Silverstein’s famous children’s book "The Giving Tree" had attended Wednesday afternoon’s Q&A session at City Hall, Silverstein’s line "And the tree was happy" would ring true.The majority of the [...]
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